[YouTube] Show embeddable Age restricted content without logging in

[whistlingwoods]

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Putting as a feature request as I don't want to make account just to see some age restricted vidoes just like this one:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvZCou0y9cI

NOTE: A fix is available on NewPipe Extractor latest PR 1231 for it.

[InfinityLoop1308]

Have you tested the fix on NewPipe? It doesn't work for me.

In fact, I doubt whether this fix is truly effective, because the yt-dlp community confirmed two months ago that age restrictions for non-embedded videos cannot be bypassed, and I haven't seen any changes to this situation. This is also why I modified the text prompt in the previous version.

ps. I don't login myself so I definitely unwilling to make any feature login-required. It is just sometimes I have to.

[whistlingwoods]

Sorry, I should have mentioned embeddable term explicitly in the request/issue title for clarity

yt-dlp community confirmed two months ago that age restrictions for non-embedded videos cannot be bypassed

Yes, that's the case only yt-dlp used to work before that for non-embeddable age-restricted videos, Not NewPipe since April 2022 I think so 2 months ago youtube has finaly placed the lid but for non-embedded yt videos only, embeddable videos can still be viewed with NewPipe since then, though broken many times by google, it was fixed on Extractor side each time since April 2022, last time with mentioned commit above.

I was able to play above embeddable age-restricted video successfully with debug APKs produced through gh actions on beta & modern branches which include required fix (through updated extractor) on the top of latest NewPipe dev & all refactor work done in jetpack compose so for on NewPipe

Try Apk from here
https://github.com/legacybin/FoxPipe/actions

[InfinityLoop1308]

🤔 Downloaded the latest build from https://github.com/legacybin/FoxPipe/actions but still can't access https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvZCou0y9cI

[whistlingwoods]

hmm.. interesting, It was working a few days ago, I tested it myself

It is a bad news for us. Maybe yet another wave of restrictions from YouTube.

So what can be next step? a login token? instead of full login in the app!

[InfinityLoop1308]

So what can be next step? a login token? instead of full login in the app!

The "full login" is just used to get the cookie so it there is no difference between them.

Without new way to bypass the blocking I think login is the only method.

[InfinityLoop1308]

Age-restricted videos now always require sign-in.
yt-dlp/yt-dlp#11296